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Business News > Mint Authors > Sarah Chaney Cambon

Sarah Chaney Cambon

ARTICLES BY SARAH CHANEY CAMBON

FILE -Corporate behemoths including SVB Financial, Bed Bath & Beyond and Yellow sought chapter 11 bankruptcy protection this year. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File) (AP)

Big-Company Bankruptcies Hang Over Economy

4 min read . 10 Oct 2023

Help Wanted: Women to Fix America’s Infrastructure

Help Wanted: Women to Fix America’s Infrastructure

4 min read . 07 Sept 2023

People going through layoffs are in wide-ranging positions, most of which are uncomfortable in one way or another (Photo: iStock)

Mass layoffs or hiring boom? What’s actually happening in the jobs market

8 min read . 10 Feb 2023

In the last five months of 2022, employers cut 110,800 temp workers, including 35,000 in December, the largest monthly drop since early 2021 (Photo: Mint)

Companies cut temporary workers in warning sign for labor market

3 min read . 24 Jan 2023

Postings on job-search site Indeed.com in software development were down 38.5% on Jan. 6 from a year earlier, while they were 30.8% lower in media and 25.6% lower in banking and finance (Photo: iStock)

Unemployment is lasting longer as job market cools

5 min read . 22 Jan 2023

Average layoffs in finance and insurance from September to November nearly doubled from a year earlier, according to Labor Department data released this past week (Photo: Mint)

As white-collar layoffs rise, blue-collar resilience faces test in 2023

4 min read . 08 Jan 2023

About 79% of workers recently hired after a tech-company layoff or termination landed their new job within three months of starting their search, according to a ZipRecruiter survey of new hires.

Laid off tech workers quickly find new jobs

7 min read . 27 Dec 2022

The US jobless rate edged a tenth of a point higher to 7.9%, but that was due to a surge of workers back into the workforce. Photo: AFP (AFP)

No interview required in tight labor market

5 min read . 11 Dec 2022

Many employers say they continue to struggle with large staffing shortages that built up during the pandemic and are reluctant to cut head count. In many cases, they are still hiring (Photo: AP)

Why are companies still hiring when GDP is shrinking?

9 min read . 07 Oct 2022

Labor demand is still historically strong, offering only faint signs of cooling (Photo: AP)

The surprise in a faltering economy: Laid-off workers quickly find jobs

5 min read . 24 Aug 2022

Some airlines have negotiated double-digit wage increases for pilots as carriers struggled to meet fast-rising demand for flights. (Photo: AFP)

Rapid wage growth keeps pressure on US inflation

3 min read . 09 Aug 2022

The strong jobs market and improved growth outlook showing pandemic recovery milestone

Snapshot of jobs market as it reaches pandemic recovery milestone

2 min read . 06 Aug 2022

Employers in many cases haven’t been able to find nearly enough employees following job cuts during the short, deep recession of early 2020 (Photo: AP)

Recession risks are mounting. Here’s why businesses are still hiring

7 min read . 03 Aug 2022

The Federal Reserve is raising interest rates to curb inflation (AP)

US economy transitions to slower growth as inflation weighs on consumers

6 min read . 30 Jul 2022

Government employment, meanwhile, remains depressed as public schools, hospitals and transit systems slowly back up staff (Photo: AFP)

All jobs businesses cut in pandemic are back, but not where they were lost

4 min read . 22 Jul 2022

The shortages push up labor costs, adding to inflationary pressure on items including airfares and beach menus. That could hold back consumer spending, the engine of the US economy (Photo: AP)

Summer worker shortage means things will be closed. Again

8 min read . 03 Jun 2022

Female wages were up 4.4% in February from a year earlier, compared with a 4.1% rise in male wages, according to the Atlanta Federal Reserve’s wage tracker (Photo: iStock)

Women are winning the biggest pay raises from US labor boom

3 min read . 21 Mar 2022

Pay for finance, information and professional employees rose 4.4% in January from a year earlier, outpacing 4% wage growth for all workers (Photo: iStock)

For white-collar workers, it’s prime time to get a big raise

5 min read . 21 Feb 2022

Initial jobless claims, a proxy for layoffs, increased to a seasonally adjusted 248,000 last week from 225,000 a week earlier, the Labor Department said Thursday (Photo: AFP)

US jobless claims edge up but remain low in tight labor market

1 min read . 18 Feb 2022

Consumer spending rose 1% in October from a month earlier and that personal incomes edged up 0.2% last month

US households likely increased spending in October

3 min read . 24 Nov 2021